Protected: Municipal Climate Staff as Knowledge Brokers
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Expanding and Deepening My Professional Learning Network
By Joanna Burris for CALS691: Designing a Practitioner Portfolio Introduction So far in my career, I have built an extensive network of connections in the climate action sector and related fields (sustainability, energy efficiency, renewable energy, urban planning), but it has happened quite organically. As I work to establish myself as a climate action leader
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Protected: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncomfortable: Leveraging Social and Cultural Capital to Advance My Career in Climate Action
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Climate Action Leader Feature: Ewa Jackson, Managing Director of ICLEI Canada
By Joanna Burris, for CALS691: Designing a Practitioner Portfolio, Week 1 Ewa Jackson is an undeniable leader in the climate action space in Canada. In her role as Managing Director of ICLEI Canada, Ewa oversees the organization’s operational activities, including all staff and programs (Ewa Jackson, n.d.). ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability is a global
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Influence of Human-Induced Climate Change on Hurricane Fiona
By Joanna Burris, for CALS500: Climate Science, Impacts, and Services, Assignment 2 Even before Hurricane Fiona’s landing in Atlantic Canada on September 24, 2022, news articles had already linked the major storm to climate change. The storm had ravaged the island nation of Puerto Rico a few short days before, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without water
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Exploring Implicit and Explicit Approaches to Emotional Work and Behaviour Change at the Community Level
By Joanna Burris for CALS505: Leading Change in the Context of Climate Change July 30, 2023 In my opinion, one of the most harmful mindsets that pervades our culture in North America is individualism. Citing Hofstede (1980, 2001) and Gorodnichenko and Roland (2011, 2017), Huang et al. (2022) explain that individualism “captures the extent to
Using Shared Socio-economic Pathways to Visualize a Sustainable Future
By Joanna Burris, for CALS501: Leading Climate Action in Society, Assignment Climate scientists and researchers have projected what the Earth’s climate will look like under different scenarios of future decisions, policies, and actions taken by humans. We understand the socio-economic changes needed to actualize a sustainable future, but there is an immense challenge ahead of
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Reflecting on Climate Communication Competencies
By Joanna Burris, for CALS501: Leading Climate Action in Society, Assignment 3 Based on the learnings from CALS 502, there are a few competencies that I would like to incorporate into my repertoire as a climate action leader. I believe that my role as a climate communicator has two key parts: 1) to help people see how
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Working toward transformative climate action (Instagram Post)
Part 3 of Assignment 4 – Content Remix for CALS502 Alt text: On a noisy gradient background with the colours yellow, orange, pink, blue, black, fascia, and peach, the title: Working toward transformative climate action. The following content slides all have a strip of colours on the left-hand side matching the title page gradient. The
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Influencing Transformative Climate Action (TikTok Video #2)
Assignment 4 – Content Remix for CALS502 Communication for Climate Action
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